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Tortoise Cowry

Chelycypraea testudinaria

Classification

Chelycypraea testudinaria, common name the tortoise cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. It is the only species in the genus Chelycpraea. There is one subspecies, Chelycypraea testudinaria ingens Schilder, F.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 4United Kingdom · 2France · 1